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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.
(a) Glaucon's own virtue.
(b) Justice as it relates to a small family.
(c) Justice as it relates to an entire city's population.
(d) Virtue as it is demanded of the city's leaders.

2. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.
(b) Agathon's poetic license.
(c) How one can know that he is truly in love.
(d) Whether loves is necessarily possible.

3. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?
(a) Agathon's drinking party.
(b) Socrates' trial.
(c) A game at the Coliseum.
(d) A poetry recital contest in Epidarus.

4. What does Cephalus say to Socrates about old age?
(a) Old age is the same as youth, it just depends on one's perspective.
(b) Most people think it is a curse, but one can enjoy freedom from youth's passions.
(c) Aging takes the life out of one's body.
(d) Wisdom is not worth death.

5. According to Socrates' view of justice, a ruler should always:
(a) Strike injustice down with acts of injustice.
(b) Put the interests of his people before himself.
(c) Foster a combination of fear and loyalty within his subjects.
(d) Put his own interest before those of his people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a symposium?

2. When pressed by Socrates to explain his skill, Ion asserts which of the following?

3. From which poet does Polemarchus derive his definition of justice?

4. Who gives the last formal speech at the symposium?

5. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?

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